Firefox 3

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu laptop to 8.04, which just happens to include a beta version of Firefox 3. Despite the fact that a couple of my favorite plugins, Firebug and GoogleBrowserSync do not have FF3 versions yet, and that I had to get a development release of the del.icio.us toolbar for FF3, I figured I'd run with the new version anyway. Now, I don't know what FF has under the hood in terms of new features or what it has for a plugin API, but I gotta say, this thing is lightening fast and has a small footprint. After seeing how fast it ran on my laptop, I figured I'd give FF3 a try on my work Macbook Pro. The result? I don't have the numbers to prove it, but pages are loading roughly twice as fast and I haven't seen my physical memory footprint go above 200MB yet!

Sweet.